"Winday"
Okay, on a more cheerful
note..........Very often I don't like new stuff, I don't like the
way something looks, tastes, sounds like, or smells until I've
been around it for a while. And this applies to more than just
people. A lot of times I've got to see something for a while
before it registers in my brain that "Hey, this is good!". This
is a direct result of having a reptile brain embedded in our
head, deep inside the rest of our brain, like the seeds of an
apple. The reptile brain resists change. It would be very happy
lying around, day after day, year after year on the same old
rock. While this is good if you are an iguana, it's not so good
if you have a great big human brain, with a nice yummy frontal
lobes Hostess Snowball around your reptile brain core. Your big
brain was made to utilize all those zillions of connections, and
keep making more and more NEW connections until the day the rest
of your body wears out.
This painting is a good example of
something I didn't appreciate until after it had been around
awhile. At first, not even knowing where the ideas came from, I
thought it was not "good art". It didn't conform to what the more
primitive part of my brain said was good design. But after
looking at it a bunch, my lobes caught on, and I appreciated it's
non-conformist approach. You just gotta keep moving on, like a
nice breeze on a summer day......
Acrylic on paper, 1993
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